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Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 04:18:58 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Rust
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On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 10:52:27PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
 
> ksmbd needs to interface with a large number of subsystems that are
> written in C.  So even if you rewrite ksmbd in Rust, it will need to
> made a huge number of unsafe calls into C code.

Not to mention the fact that ksmbd bugs I've seen so far had nothing
to do with "memory safety" and they would translate into Rust just
fine, TYVM, even if the stuff outside of ksmbd had also been all in
Rust...